Marc Masters

What a busy week of campaign events in Iowa means for the field of candidates vying for the Republican presidential nomination.

Like the Velvet Underground before them, Kilgour and The Clean inspired tons of musicians to embrace impulsive creativity.

The prolific artist was a mentor to generations of experimental musicians.

With seven tracks stretched across 75 minutes and four LP sides, The Morning Star is the acoustic guitarist's most ambitious effort so far.

Featuring former Stereolab members, the trio unfurls instrumental loops that build to ecstatic hypnosis.

Reese McHenry's got a voice like a preacher turning a standard sermon into a cathartic epiphany. She's joined by fellow North Carolina garage-rockers Spider Bags for a collaborative album.

The Atlanta trio's first single from Multi-task is built around twitchy, start-stop beats that instantly get pulses rushing and nerves tingling.

A new compilation spans Scott's innovations in electronic music from 1961 through 1971, including a cartoonishly joyful "ballet" that whirs away like overcharged robots.

Orcutt's guitar playing scrambles conventional logic, but his take on the song from the 1927 musical Show Boat might be one of his gentlest tracks ever.

This UK-based funk ensemble took its name from a Sun Ra album. One listen to A World Of Masks and you'll hear why.

Woods hadn't planned to make any new music in 2017, but after last year's election, the folk-rock band decided to focus on love.

The singer of Saturday Looks Good To Me fills his new solo album with keen reflections on big decisions and life-altering memories.

Half Japanese began in the late '70s as a band of primitive outsiders, breaking musical rules that founding brothers Jad and David Fair never even learned. Today, it remains surprising and vibrant.

The shoegazing tune feels a little like a lost Christmas carol: faded with time, but still echoing lightly through the winter air.

The veteran composer crafts a masterfully emotional and poignant score to Yoji Yamada's heartbreaking new film. The 28 tracks here are so patient, they can make the world seem to move in slow motion.

A breathy voice floats over insistent beats in a mesmerizng collection of first takes. Singer Anika asks, "Can't you let me fly far and wide / Up to where I can reach the sky?"

Listening to the music of Canadian singer and composer Ian William Craig is like watching a classic black-and-white movie slowly fade, decay and disintegrate.

New music from the Scottish rock instrumentalists is familiarly cinematic, full of mountainous waves that build momentum more through patience than velocity.

The American Primitive-style acoustic guitarist makes albums that fit together beautifully, working together rather than merely occupying the same piece of vinyl.

"Underground supergroup" could be an oxymoron, but if it's possible that one exists, Rangda is it. The musical resumés of this trio – guitarists Richard Bishop (Sun City Girls) and Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance) alongside drummer Chris Corsano (too many ...